Wave Alchemy Releases Tapewave

Wave Alchemy describes Tapewave as a versatile tape plugin that effortlessly blends the crisp tones of analog tape with the nostalgic charm of aged, lo-fi cassettes. Here's more details in their own words...

With authentic wow and flutter modulation, rich tape saturation, vibey analog compression, and six unique tape styles with adjustable tape age control, achieve the perfect balance of warmth and grit to take your mix on a journey through time.

Switching tapes is one of the simplest ways to achieve a different sound when recording to cassette – some tapes are darker, grittier, cleaner, or purely lo-fi.

Tapewave brings this experience to life by offering six distinct tape styles, each with its own instantly recognizable character. Plus, with the Age control, you can push each tape style even further, transforming the sound from brand new to the brink of total breakdown, capturing the full range of cassette degradation.

Feature list

• Add life, soul and warmth to digital mixes
• Six unique tape styles, each delivering its own distinct character – from clean and punchy to dark, gritty, and lo-fi
• Take things further with Tape Age, a seamless control that transforms each tape style from pristine to worn-out – capturing a wide range of cassette degradation
• Painstakingly modelled analog tape saturation circuit
• Two analog-style compression modes, including a vibey Shure Level Loc emulation, let you crush transients or tame dynamics effortlessly
• Authentically recreate the unstable pitch movement inherent of old analog tape
• Creative Wow & Flutter engine for realistic pitch fluctuations, featuring both stable cosine curve modulation and a custom-tuned Perlin noise generator for authentic pitch warble
• Make Wow & Flutter even more unstable with the creative Drift control
• Switchable tape hiss circuit
• Punchy output maximizer for extra loudness
• Up to 16x oversampling for smooth, alias-free operation
• Internal preset browser with searching, tags and favorites
• 100 production-ready presets
• Resizable high-definition UI
• Undo and Redo parameter changes

Pricing and Availability:
On offer at £29

More information:

• Tapewave

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